The coastal areas of the Baltic Sea are facing new challenges and pressures. The problems are often the same on the coasts and in different coastal national parks and biosphere reserves, and that is why, not only local, but also transnational cooperation and communication is needed. The main goal of the project was to strengthen the cooperation and information exchange between the protected areas in the Baltic Sea Region. However, the project also aimed at strengthening the local cooperation. The goal was to find new models for cooperation and communication and also to exchange information about the models that already exist. Achievements: During the project, four workshop seminars were held for project partners, stakeholders and other interested. The workshops focused on Community Models and Sustainable Development, Nature and Culture as a Resource, and Information and Education. The last workshop gathered together all the experiences. Experiences were changed also through personnel exchange and stakeholder study trips where protected area personnel and stakeholders got the change to get to know the models and methods of another protected area in some other BSR country. At the local level the project arranged various seminars and training courses for local people, guides and entrepreneurs. Especially good models for cooperation with the entrepreneurs were developed.More academic networking was established for researchers and protected area management through so called Research Schools. These popular events were arranged on three topics in Latvia. University of Latvia also developed further the idea of coastal environmental communication and produced distance education materials, platform, handbook and guidelines book on coastal environmental communication. During the project also natural products (such as handicrafts and natural grazing beef) and their marketing was developed. Hiiumaa in Estonia was a case example in this.A study concerning local cooperation was conducted. This comparative study analysed the cooperation problems of four project areas. Also recommendations for best practises were searched for. Better cooperation was emphasized also in project activities. Reference groups were established for all project countries and in Latvia there was tested so called support group network which united local people with the biosphere reserve. On the other hand, the project improved also information of protected and coastal areas for the foreign and local visitors. This was done e.g. by improving visitor centres and producing information material. Information on the coastal protected areas was also disseminated through photograph exhibition.